Twitter has started testing a new threaded style of communication that is meant to make it clearer who is talking to whom. Based on the GIF posted on the Twitter Support account, the new layout uses lines and indentations to clearly indicate that a response is intended for a particular tweet. For longer threads, where participants go back and forth and where people post answers to several different tweets, it looks especially helpful.
Over the past year, the company has experimented with this style on its concept app twttr, and early April, app researcher Jane Manchun Wong posted a demo to her page.
For quite a while now, Twitter has been experimenting with various types of templates like putting labels on conversation threads. This February alone, it rolled out a similar threaded interface for iOS users. Since this is just a public trial, the new feature will only make its way to some users on iOS and the web and will only become widely available if the company decides that delivering to everyone is good enough.
